However, after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Zuoren lived in Peiping after the fall, and served as a member of the pseudo-Nanjing National Government, a standing member of the pseudo-North China Government Affairs Committee, and a supervisor of the General Education Department. He also married a Japanese woman, so he was branded a traitor and was criticized during the Cultural Revolution after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Therefore, the domestic mainstream trend is unfavorable to Zhou Zuoren, so his works have not been included in textbooks. It should be said that Zhou Zuoren's burial in the literary world has a lot to do with politics.
Zhou Zuoren's works mainly include essays My Garden, A Rain Book, Alisma orientale, Talking about Dragons and Tigers, Forever and ever, Watching Gathering, Reading and Copying at Night, Essays on Bitter Tea, Talking about Rain and Melons and Candles. Essays on Art and Life, Origin of China's New Literature, History of European Literature, Collection of Literary Historical Materials, Lu Xun's Hometown, Characters in Lu Xun's Novels, Lu Xun's Youth, Memoirs, Understanding the Memories of the Tang Dynasty, Wild Tales, Aesop's Fables and euripides's Tragedies translated into Japanese. Most of his works are peaceful and elegant (comments in the history of literature). Many writers even think that Zhou Zuoren's literary achievements are much higher than Lu Xun's. Therefore, Zhou Zuoren is also an accomplished writer, and should not totally deny it for some reason.